disdiaclastic

[Eng. disdiaclast (q. v.), and suff. -ic.] Anat.: Pertaining to Disdiaclasts (q. v.). dis-di-a-pā-şon, s. [Gr. dis =twice, twofold, and Eng.diapason (q. v.).] Music: An interval of two octaves, a fifteenth. It is also written Bis diapason. ( Stainer & Barrett.) (1) Dis diapason diapente : Music : A concord in a sextuple ratio of 1:6. (2) Dis diapason semi - diapente : Music: A compound concord in the proportion of 16:3. (3) Dis diapason ditone : Music: A compound consonance in the proportion of 10: 2. (4) Dis diapason semi - ditone : Music: A compound concord in the proportion oft 24:5. *dis-do-ing, a. [Pref. dis , and Eng. doing .] Not thriving. dis-ea'şe, *dis-eese, *dis-ese, *di -ese, *dysese, s . [O. Fr. desaise = a sickne , disease: O. Fr. des Lat. dis = away, apart, and O. Fr. aise ease; Ital. disagio .] IMG:content-0076.png:[blocks in formation] 3. In the same sense as II. "Then wasteful forth Walks the dire power of pestilent disease ." Thomson: Summer , 1,034, 1,035. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0077.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Animal Phys .: Any alteration of the normal vital proce es of the body under the influence of some unnatural or hurtful condition, called the morbific cause. If accompanied by change of structure, it is called organic or structural; if not, it is said to be functional. The history of disease includes: (1) Symptomatology, or semeiology, the morbid phenomena or symptoms; (2) etiology, or causes of disease, the specific agents or causes generating or producing disease; (3) the special locality or seat of structural disease; (4) the nature and extent of morbid alterations, or lesions, or the stamps, anatomical signs, or evidence of its exist ence, in connection with its symptoms, causes, and course during life-morbid anatomy; and (5) morbid histology, or the elementary constituents of disease-products. There are usually three periods: development, expre ion, and a series of intervals either tending to improvement, or confirmed cond i. tions of ill-health, according usually as the disease is of the acute or of the chronic form. The form of disease may be neurotic, dynamic, adynamic, constitutional, malignant, hereditary, cutaneous, . The usual tendency of disease, from the vis medicatrix naturæ , is toward recovery. 2. Veget .: Plants suffer from diseases. These are of various kinds: (2) Diseases of decomposition, as gangrene or canker. These are proce es of decay in which cellulose is transformed into a muddy fluid, a brown powder, or a carbonaceous ma . For the difference between disease and disorder , See DISORDER. *diş-ea'şe, *dis-eese, *dis-ese, * dis-esen, *dys-ease, v. t. [O. Fr. desaisir ; Prov. dezaisir; Ital. disagiare , from O. Fr. desaise disease (q.v.). 1. Originally in the general sense, to deprive of ease or comfort; to distre , to trouble, to annoy. "Thy daughter is dead; why diseasest thou [Gr. skulleis ; Auth. Ver. troublest] the master any further!"-Tyndale: Mark v. 35. 2. To trouble, to disturb. IMG:content-0078.png:[blocks in formation] "I grieve myself To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her, Whom now thou tir'st on, how thy memory Will then be panged by me." Shakesp.: Cymbeline , iii. 4. dis-ed-1-fỹ, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. edify (q.v.).] To fail of edifying. *dis-el-děr, v. t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. elder (q. v.).) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the rank of an elder. *dis em-bar-gō, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. em bar go (q. v.).] To release or free from an embargo. "And then dis embargoed Rosa's property." -An Ex-dic tat or ; London Times. dis-em-bark', v. t. & i. [Fr. désembarquer: des =Lat.dis=away, apart, and embarquer =to embark (q.v.).] A. Trans .: To cause to land from a ship; to carry to land, to debark, to put on shore. "The military stores were disembarked there."- Масаи lay: Hist . Eng., ch. vi. B. In trans.: To land or come on shore from a ship; to quit a ship for land. "There, disembarking on the green sea-side, We land our cattle, and the spoil divide." Pope : Homer's Ody ey, ix. 640, 641.